page_title: List of birds of Rocky Mountain National Park
section_title: Owls
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Rocky Mountain National Park / Owls
context_page_description: This is a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Rocky Mountain National Park, a 265,461 acres park in the U.S. state of Colorado. This list is based on one published by the National Park Service. Between when the NPS list was published and mid-July 2020, 18 more species have been added through eBird.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  This list contains 283 species and eight identifiable subspecies or forms. Unless otherwise noted, all are considered to occur regularly in Rocky Mountain National Park as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. The tags below are used to designate the abundance of some less-common species. Some of the species which the NPS lists as unconfirmed have documented records in eBird.
  Rare - "usually seen only a few times each year" per the NPS
context_section_description: Order: Strigiformes   Family: Strigidae
  Typical or "true" owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk.
  Flammulated owl, Psiloscops flammeolus, old-growth ponderosa pine forests (R)
  Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio, montane forests, riparian (U)
  Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus, montane and subalpine forests, riparian
  Northern pygmy-owl, Glaucidium gnoma, montane and subalpine forests, riparian
  Long-eared owl, Asio otus, montane forests, riparian (U)
  Boreal owl, Aegolius funereus, subalpine forests (U)
  Northern saw-whet owl, Aegolius acadicus, montane and subalpine forests (U)
caption: A boreal owl
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